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GlassFish App Server Monitoring Data Persistence With "LightFish"

Ever wanted an easy tool for persisting your App Server's monitoring data with no external dependencies.  Well if you use GlassFish you're in luck, because...

0 replies - 4389 views - 03/15/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Vagrant Plugin for Snapping a Screenshot of All Your VMs

Developers and operations folk were grateful and excited to see the 1.0 release of Vagrant, an open source VM provisioning/management tool that seems to be...

0 replies - 4350 views - 03/14/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil"

Here’s a license for a library you probably use right now. Notice the clause I circled in an alarmist shade of red: If you saw this license...

0 replies - 38930 views - 03/12/12 by Brian Fox in Articles

Scaling Solr Indexing with SolrCloud, Hadoop and Behemoth

We’ve been doing a lot of work at Lucid lately on scaling out Solr, so I thought I would blog about some of the things we’ve been working on recently...

0 replies - 8321 views - 03/06/12 by Grant Ingersoll in Articles

Making It Up As You Go: A Common Approach to OSS Policy

  Unless you develop code on an isolated island disconnected from the internet, it’s a safe bet that you use open source in...

1 replies - 1606 views - 03/06/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles

GitHub Was Hacked Over the Weekend - Here's What Happened, From Multiple Sources

Hacker News exploded yesterday with news of GitHub being hacked. Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I began with GitHub's side of the story: A...

2 replies - 11798 views - 03/05/12 by Chris Shiflett in News

Explain.solr.pl Solr Visualization Tool Open Sourced

As we promised earlier, source code for explain.solr.pl is now published. To refresh Your memory: it is a tool to visualize Solr search results and get the...

0 replies - 3468 views - 03/03/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Reviewing 'Build Your Own EC2' OSS - Cloudstack 3.0

CloudStack is an open source cloud orchestration platform that essentially allows service providers to set up on-demand, elastic cloud computing services that...

0 replies - 6257 views - 02/29/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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0 replies - 16230 views - 02/28/12 by Chris Smith in Articles

Bird’s Eye View of the ElasticSearch Query DSL

I’ve copied the whole post into a gist so that you can simply clone, copy and paste the important stuff and even could contribute easily. Several times per...

0 replies - 6275 views - 02/16/12 by Peter ___ in Articles

Search Needs to Help Disprove Patent Trolls

As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he...

0 replies - 3323 views - 02/09/12 by Jason Hull in Articles

Heroku, MongoDB, node.js – a problem

A couple facts about three cool technologies node.js is a powerful way of writing backend code in JavaScript; why JavaScript? Because you have the kind...

1 replies - 7939 views - 01/30/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked...

1 replies - 5821 views - 01/26/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

The Story of Google Code Search and How it Worked

Although it went out of commission only a few days ago, Google Code Search was once the pet project of a team of Google interns in the Summer of 2006.  In an...

0 replies - 4973 views - 01/23/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Powered by Lucene: IBM Content Analytics with Enterprise Research

See and hear how IBM applies Lucence into their commercial software offerings. Hear about experience in development and advantages of this...

0 replies - 3384 views - 01/21/12 by Chris Smith in Videos